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| The terminal came with three different standard keyboard layouts - an "AT" keyboard, an "ASCII" keyboard, and a "DEC Style VT-320" keyboard. ((Televideo (Dec. 1994), retrieved from Bitsavers - [[http://bitsavers.org/pdf/televideo/995/Televideo_995-65_Users_Guide.pdf|Televideo 995-65 User's Guide]])), along with the AT and DEC style keyboards advertised as having layouts for US English, UK English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Danish, and Swedish. ((Televideo (Oct. 1994), retrieved from Bitsavers - [[http://bitsavers.org/pdf/televideo/995/995-65-Specs.pdf|Televideo 995-65 Specs]])) | The terminal came with three different standard keyboard layouts - an "AT" keyboard, an "ASCII" keyboard, and a "DEC Style VT-320" keyboard. ((Televideo (Dec. 1994), retrieved from Bitsavers - [[http://bitsavers.org/pdf/televideo/995/Televideo_995-65_Users_Guide.pdf|Televideo 995-65 User's Guide]])), along with the AT and DEC style keyboards advertised as having layouts for US English, UK English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Danish, and Swedish. ((Televideo (Oct. 1994), retrieved from Bitsavers - [[http://bitsavers.org/pdf/televideo/995/995-65-Specs.pdf|Televideo 995-65 Specs]])) |
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| All keyboards made for the Televideo 995-65 presumably shared the same construction, switches, and a Mini-DIN-6 plug normally found on PS/2 keyboards; however, all documented examples of these keyboards support non-standard versions of code sets 1, 2, and 3, while existing converter solutions choose code set 3 as base to build on because that one matches best code set 3 as used by other keyboards. The keyboard starts up in code set 1 by default, but using PS/2 protocol, so generic PS/2 converters will not be able to use it. ((Purdea Andrei [purdeaandrei] (Nov. 2021) "Add support for the DEC layout Televideo Linear Space Invader keyboards to ibmpc_usb" [Github pull request for tmk_keyboard]. - [[https://web.archive.org/web/20231217180922/https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboard/pull/711|Archived via archive.org.]])) a protocol incompatible with basic PS/2 to USB converters. | All keyboards made for the Televideo 995-65 presumably shared the same construction, switches, and a Mini-DIN-6 plug normally found on PS/2 keyboards; however, all documented examples of these keyboards support non-standard versions of code sets 1, 2, and 3. The keyboard starts up in code set 1 by default, but using PS/2 protocol. Converter solutions such as TMK, and others based on TMK choose to use code set 3 because it shares most similarities with other code set 3 keyboards, and requires the least amount of custom code to support. ((Purdea Andrei [purdeaandrei] (Nov. 2021) "Add support for the DEC layout Televideo Linear Space Invader keyboards to ibmpc_usb" [Github pull request for tmk_keyboard]. - [[https://web.archive.org/web/20231217180922/https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboard/pull/711|Archived via archive.org.]])) the keyboard is incompatible with basic PS/2 to USB converters. |
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| All documented examples of these keyboards used [[terminology:linear|linear]] [[switch:hitek_series_725|Hi-Tek Series 725]] switches - with white sliders for main keys, and a neon-green slider for the space bar; and were fitted with thick PBT keycaps with [[terminology:dye_sublimation|dye-sublimated]] legends. | All documented examples of these keyboards used [[terminology:linear|linear]] [[switch:hitek_series_725|Hi-Tek Series 725]] switches - with white sliders for main keys, and a neon-green slider for the space bar; and were fitted with thick PBT keycaps with [[terminology:dye_sublimation|dye-sublimated]] legends. |
